My NPR Piece on Oscar Grant.
(This audio piece and transcript was originally published at NPR.org by youthradio.org)
As part of NPR’s continuing coverage of the Oscar Grant trial, Youth Radio brings us this audio postcard — not from Los Angeles where the trial is happening, but from Oakland where the case began New Year’s Day in 2009. That’s when then-BART Transit officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed an unarmed 22-year-old man. Last year, the city erupted with angry protests, some of them violent. And now that the officer’s trial is nearing a close in Los Angeles, Youth Radio’s Pendarvis Harshaw, an Oakland resident, traveled to three distinct spots throughout the city to ask how people are feeling about the case.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128220858&ft=1&f=1091
July 2, 2010 at 2:27 am
Powerful piece giving listeners balanced insight of the real Oakland!